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brahmin   (TTS Sound)

The noun brahmin has 4 senses

• brahman, brahmin -- (a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston brahman")


• brahman, brahmin -- (a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests")


• brahman, brahmin -- (the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category)


• Brahman, Brahma, Brahmin, Bos indicus -- (any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding)